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this interpretation and the non-gapped chronology, it elapcée, seem to need revising.
We come here again to support hypotheses already presented at that time by the Hellenists.
If one wishes to reconcile the traditional colonisation of Cyprus by the Achaeans, with the data now revealed by a stratigraphic excavation at Enkomi, the event would have to be dated back to the end of the 14th c., or at the latest, to the 13th c.
Nevertheless, the foundation by Teucros remains always possible. But, could one not refer to the site now buried in the salt forests of Ktima.
It would correspond to an Achaean settlement in the paste of the one we are currently excavating, whose palace found in an old quarter ... were dispersed ... the last the significant plan.
This hypothesis, adopted at Enkomi, amplified in tradition into the foundation of a Mycenaean city, having the character of a ... not only ... the ... ... not which contains the recine of the Old Testament.
The destruction of the city found at Enkomi, destruction dated by our finds to the 13th c., would then have to be linked to a quite other event, ... we have it much later.
According to the archaeological indications collected so far, we envisage an invasion in connection with the events in Greece and in the East, at the time of the appearance of the Peoples of the Sea.
The repercussions of this event may have been felt in Cyprus events with a certain delay compared with Greece, where the Appellation of the Dorians according to the traditions brought about the transformation of the
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